By Rick Riordan
Fantasy
MYTHICAL/SUPERNATURAL CREATURES ***
VIOLENCE **
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS **
DEATH **
This is the same author who wrote the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I love his writing - it's so light and humorous and exciting. Will make you laugh, cry, and turn the pages as fast as you can read them. What more could you ask for?
Carter and Sadie Kane have never really had anything to do with each other except when Christmas holiday came around. Since their mother passed away when they were young they have been separated. Carter travels the globe with their infamous father, Julius Kane, while he gives lectures on ancient Egyptian magic and voodoo while Sadie attends a boarding school in London and lives with their grandparents. When their father is unexpectedly swept away by a mysterious force, Carter and Sadie are exposed to a world of magic and Egyptian gods and goddesses. Will they ever be able to get their father back and stop the villain before it's too late?
Monday, March 7, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
The Princess Bride ****
By William Goldman
Fantasy
MYTHICAL/SUPERNATURAL CREATURES *
LANGUAGE **
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS ***
VIOLENCE ***
DEATH **
I. Loved. It. Seriously - you have to read it! Very humorous and fun. Full of action, giants, Spaniards, true love, sword fighting, monsters, adventure, and miracles :) This is a book I will read over and over again. If you loved the movie, you'll ADORE the book!
Buttercup is a beautiful bud just waiting to blossom. Westley is a humble farm boy that works for Buttercups father around the farm and is most definitely, most entirely in love with her. When Westley disappears at sea, Buttercup vows to never love again. Some years later when she is captured by a humorous threesome and is miraculously saved by a mysterious man in black. Will she ever find out who the man in black is, and whatever happened to her beloved Westley?
Fantasy
MYTHICAL/SUPERNATURAL CREATURES *
LANGUAGE **
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS ***
VIOLENCE ***
DEATH **
I. Loved. It. Seriously - you have to read it! Very humorous and fun. Full of action, giants, Spaniards, true love, sword fighting, monsters, adventure, and miracles :) This is a book I will read over and over again. If you loved the movie, you'll ADORE the book!
Buttercup is a beautiful bud just waiting to blossom. Westley is a humble farm boy that works for Buttercups father around the farm and is most definitely, most entirely in love with her. When Westley disappears at sea, Buttercup vows to never love again. Some years later when she is captured by a humorous threesome and is miraculously saved by a mysterious man in black. Will she ever find out who the man in black is, and whatever happened to her beloved Westley?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Leven Thumps: The Gateway to Foo (Book 1) *****
By Obert Skye
Sci-fi Fantasy
MYTHICAL/SUPERNATURAL CREATURES **
VIOLENCE **
PERIL *
DEATH *
This series is hilarious! So imaginative and fun. Leven Thumps starts out just like Harry Potter did, both parents dead and two idiot relatives to care for him. He has no friends. He sleeps on the porch. He's their personal slave. He lives in a desolate town called 'Burnt Culvert',Oklahoma.
Winter Frore has similar issues. Her father ran off right before she was born. (Her parents were married). Her mother, a rude, lazy, obese slob, doesn't want her. When Winter discovers curious powers, she runs away and catches a train to Oklahoma. Why, she doesn't know or care. She just wants to be away.
When Leven finds out about Foo, a made-up world that makes it possible for man to hope and dream, and when Winter discovers her true purpose, their fates become intertwined. With the aid of other friends, can they ultimately stop Sabine, an evil man, from destroying Foo?
Monday, February 7, 2011
Catching Fire ****
By Suzanne Collins
Sci-Fi
VIOLENCE *** 1/2
PERIL ***
DEATH *** 1/2
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS ***
MYTHICAL/SUPERNATURAL CREATURES ***
This is book 2 in the Hunger Games trilogy. I thought it was a good sequel. Very exciting with new twists and dangers around every corner. I enjoyed it, but I personally liked the first book a lot more.
The Hunger Games are over. Katniss and Peeta are safe at home at last...but are they? After The Games they go on a 'victory tour' to each district and have to face the fake appreciation and gratitude from the loved ones of the children they murdered in The Games. Among all this strife and grief, Katniss is stuck between Gale and Peeta. Who will she choose? The boy with the bread, or the boy in the coal mines? Little does Katniss know that her deadly move at the end of The Games triggered a rebellious fire in the hearts of those who oppose the Capitol, and if she can't quench it...her loved ones lives are at stake.
Sci-Fi
VIOLENCE *** 1/2
PERIL ***
DEATH *** 1/2
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS ***
MYTHICAL/SUPERNATURAL CREATURES ***
This is book 2 in the Hunger Games trilogy. I thought it was a good sequel. Very exciting with new twists and dangers around every corner. I enjoyed it, but I personally liked the first book a lot more.
The Hunger Games are over. Katniss and Peeta are safe at home at last...but are they? After The Games they go on a 'victory tour' to each district and have to face the fake appreciation and gratitude from the loved ones of the children they murdered in The Games. Among all this strife and grief, Katniss is stuck between Gale and Peeta. Who will she choose? The boy with the bread, or the boy in the coal mines? Little does Katniss know that her deadly move at the end of The Games triggered a rebellious fire in the hearts of those who oppose the Capitol, and if she can't quench it...her loved ones lives are at stake.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Wuthering Heights ****
By Emily Bronte
Fiction
326 pages
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS ***
LANGUAGE **
DEATH **
SCARY IMAGES **
Well. I finished this book about a month ago and I never got around to posting a review so...here it is :) I really liked it, it was very exciting and kept you turning the pages. It is a little confusing at the beginning, but I got the hang of it after a while.
Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff are destined to love each other no matter what their differences in society and personality are. While Heathcliff is treated as a slave, Catherine is pampered and is told that she can no longer have anything to do with Heathcliff and that she would have no chance of a fine life if she loved him, so they are brutally separated. Feeling betrayed, Heathcliff slowly starts to form his plan of revenge and how to get his beloved Catherine back to him...
Fiction
326 pages
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS ***
LANGUAGE **
DEATH **
SCARY IMAGES **
Well. I finished this book about a month ago and I never got around to posting a review so...here it is :) I really liked it, it was very exciting and kept you turning the pages. It is a little confusing at the beginning, but I got the hang of it after a while.
Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff are destined to love each other no matter what their differences in society and personality are. While Heathcliff is treated as a slave, Catherine is pampered and is told that she can no longer have anything to do with Heathcliff and that she would have no chance of a fine life if she loved him, so they are brutally separated. Feeling betrayed, Heathcliff slowly starts to form his plan of revenge and how to get his beloved Catherine back to him...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The Book Thief ****
By Markus Zusak
Historical Fiction
LANGUAGE ***
DEATH ** 1/2
VIOLENCE **
PERIL ***
Wow - I cried my eyes out while reading this...and I NEVER cry when I'm reading! It was a very interesting story with a very interesting perspective - I loved it. *There is language, however and parents, you might want to read it before your child does.
Liesel lives in Nazi Germany during the WW2. Stricken with grief she is sent to live with foster parents where she learns the beauty of an accordian and good friendship. The story is told from the perspective of Death himself. Join Death as he tells Liesel's story and about her career as the Book Thief. Very beautifully written and touching to the heart :)
Historical Fiction
LANGUAGE ***
DEATH ** 1/2
VIOLENCE **
PERIL ***
Wow - I cried my eyes out while reading this...and I NEVER cry when I'm reading! It was a very interesting story with a very interesting perspective - I loved it. *There is language, however and parents, you might want to read it before your child does.
Liesel lives in Nazi Germany during the WW2. Stricken with grief she is sent to live with foster parents where she learns the beauty of an accordian and good friendship. The story is told from the perspective of Death himself. Join Death as he tells Liesel's story and about her career as the Book Thief. Very beautifully written and touching to the heart :)
Saturday, November 13, 2010
The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas
509 pages
DEATH ***
PERIL **
VIOLENCE ***
LANGUAGE **
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS **
VERY exciting. I though it was going to be boring, but I finished it in 2 days because I couldn't put it down! It was WAY better than the movie, and I really enjoyed it. A murder mystery, love story, vengeance, cunning, amazing book. It is a required high school novel
Edmond Dantes is a lowly sailor, with a father who loves him and a beautiful fiance. When everything finally seems to be falling in line for once in his life, he is framed and sent to Chateau d'If , a horrible prison, where he stays there for 14 years. He wants nothing more than revenge on his enemies and his loved ones back...can he do it?
509 pages
DEATH ***
PERIL **
VIOLENCE ***
LANGUAGE **
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS **
VERY exciting. I though it was going to be boring, but I finished it in 2 days because I couldn't put it down! It was WAY better than the movie, and I really enjoyed it. A murder mystery, love story, vengeance, cunning, amazing book. It is a required high school novel
Edmond Dantes is a lowly sailor, with a father who loves him and a beautiful fiance. When everything finally seems to be falling in line for once in his life, he is framed and sent to Chateau d'If , a horrible prison, where he stays there for 14 years. He wants nothing more than revenge on his enemies and his loved ones back...can he do it?
Sunday, July 11, 2010
The Hunger Games *****
By Suzanne Collins
Sci-Fi
374 pages
VIOLENCE ***
ROMANTIC AFFAIRS ***
MYTHICAL/SUPERNATURAL CREATURES ***
DEATH ***
PERIL ***
I am in love with this book! It was an action packed with survival, romance, peril, and twists at every turn...I couldn't put it down! *Note: There is a lot of death and gets a little descriptive with the wounds and gore, but it won't be too bad for those 13 +.
Katniss Everdeen lives in a time of Darkness. District 12, her hometown, has been struck by a slowly consuming famine. Once a year, the cruel Capitol forces each district to offer two teenagers between the age 12-18 to participate in The Hunger Games, a barbaric 'game show' where they trap the tributes in a large arena and they must fight to the death. Whoever survives gets ever-lasting glory and wealth. When Katniss volunteers herself in her sisters place, her life is changed forever as she tries to survive the horrid Hunger Games.
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